Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1880 — ALL SORTS. [ARTICLE]

ALL SORTS.

Algeria’s chief product is bees-wax. Europe may go in and have a general war, brutal and destructive. Tire United States will furnish the bread. The Hartford (Coon.) 7¥mc-» wants the Connecticut Legislature to vote the money to erect a monument to Nathan Hale,’the Revolutionary hero. Mrs. Lorne confesses that Canada makes her homesick. Without attempting to compliment - Canadian society she says that life there is isolation. A lot of Virginia Judges decided that they could hold over for another term. The Supreme Judges decided that they could get out anaiet the new ones have a whack at justice.— N O. Picayune, Mrs. Hume, of Girardville, Pa., sent a comic valentine to her sister-in-law, Mrs. Lishman, on the 14th of Feburary. It was not favorably received. The fa’ir creatures, backed by then- respective husbands, met in the* street and fought. A jury of their countrymen will settle the question of damages. An English journalist writes: “If a list were made out on a sort of competitive principle, and it were possible to observe by the aid of it the relative age at which plain and pretty girls marry, it may be asserted almost with certainty that the palm in the race would be carried off by the former.” John Hickman, one of the “ cattle kings” of Colorado, ran through a sleeping ear on the Kansas Pacific Railroad the other night, and, with a long knife in his right hand, slashed away at the passengers in the upper berths. He had been attacked with a temporary/fit of insanity. The train men were obliged to tie the millionaire hand and fbot. Mr. Herschel, a civil engineer of Bowon, has submitted a plan for cuttin/sJI ship canal across Cape Cod at a c'*, vefwmuch lese than has been est*ttated bqrore. and In a manner not any engineers who have b’Mjerto examined iMto the feasibility <Jf Jthe woric. He thinks that the woy* Casi be dqfic for a little less than two minion do/lars. J Mis/anthony will please skip thia item:, Dorothy Pattison, whose life was publianed under the title of “Sister Dora,” tvas noted for hospital work, but, towa/d the end of her life, remarked mat she believed the true sphere for women was hotae, and that if she was to live her life over again she would marry, “and 'live as a woman should live, in subjection.”— Chicago AsT Illinois schoolmistress was una* blikfo chastise the biggest girl pupil, ,4bß called in a young school trustee to Asist her. The trustee found that the ■offender was his own sweetheart, but his sense of duty triumphed over his Jove, and he whipped the girl. Not only did this result in losing him a sweetheart, but her father sued him for damages, and got a verdict of 950.—Detroit Free Press. Emil Berghoff, a Polish refugee, was for several years a penniless wanderer in the West. While unusually destitute, in Colorado, recently, he received news that a relative had died in Russia, leaving him a fortune. He had enjoyed only a few days of elation when he received information that the Russian Government had confiscated the property. The blow took all the spirit out of him, and he is now insane. Bernard Biglin went home from a carousal at Vernon Hill, Neb., “to have some fun with the old man,” his father. He began by pulling his aged parent out of bed and compelling him to dance a jig barefooted on the cold floor. Then he commanded his father to stand on his head; but the feat was beyond the old man’s power, and the son had begun to whip him for failing, when his mother, a stalwart sort of woman, bounded out with a chair and knocked him senseless. Bernard’s skull was broken, and he came near dying. A law of Maine declares that any persons sustaining in juries in that State shall not be entitled to damages if they are residents of a country where a similar remedy does not exist. A Cuban lady having been injured by a defective highway brought suit. The Supreme Court decided that she was entitled to damages; for the statute was unconstitutional, being in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, which declares that no State shall “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law.”— Exchange. Thf statement in some papers that Mr. N. P. Chapman, the inventor of “the number fifteen puzzle,” had no rights in its manufacture, seems unwarranted. It appears that the puzzle found its way among the public without his consent. He some time since made application for letters-patent for the puzzle, and expects they will soon be issued to him. It is estimated that he has already lost between $25,000 and $50,000 from the advantage taken by some manufacturers of the puzzle pending the decision on his application at Washington.— Chicago Tribune. English holders of the old repudiated Mississippi bonds which bear date of 1840 have made a proposition to forego the interest for forty years amounting to about $13,000,000. They then propose that the State shall issue new bonds to the amount of $7,000,000, the amount of the original issue, and that the new bonds shall bear interest for the first year, beginning on the Ist of January, 1879, the first payment being July, 1879, at the rate of three per centum per annum, increasing annually after the first year at the rate of one per centum per annum until the original rate is reached.

The champion remarkable accident came’ to light yesterday. Henry Von der Kammer keeps a saloon at No. 83 West Thirteenth street He has a dog. At eleven o'clock Monday night he tied that dog to the foot of the stove, and sat himself down to take life easy. In the stillness a rat loomed up, the dog jumped for the rat and pulled over the stove, which fell on Von der Kammer's left leg, severing an artery aear the ankle. Not serious. The rat escaped.— Chicago Inter-Ocean. The late M. Cremienx never lost an opportunity of telling his young friends how happy life can be made through the choice of a sympathetic wife, who stands on an intellectual level with her husband. He declared a short time before his death that the affection which he bore to his bride in her youdg days had made h\s married life appear to him, even amidst many trying sorrows, a cloudless day of domestic bliss. —Everything in nature indulges in amusement The lightning plays, the wind whistles, the thunder rolls, the snow flies, the waves leap and the fields smile. Even the buds shoot and the riven run.